Вулкан

At first each chapter reads like a separate story: Klaus Schimmelhoff, a famous patient of Dr Alzheimer, and Magda, his Bulgarian carer; her daughter, a girl covered in fine fur in a Bulgarian village; a newly rich businessman with a plan to make energy from dung; a journalist; Aznavur Tserovski, a once celebrated surgeon shut in an asylum. The story is set in the present but rooted in the 1990s, in the woods between Vakarel and Ihtiman. Slowly the threads close: the girl goes in search of her father, the inseparable businessmen Koki and Dounyo try to do good, a demon turns up, and a nineteenth-century astronomer's hunt for the planet Vulcan runs through it all. The whole novel may be no more than a dream in the burnt-out brain of the old painter.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

539 pages in the original

First published

2023 by Janet 45

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9786191868155 (original)